Deficient intentional access to semantic knowledge in patients with severe closed-head injury

Cortex

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 213-225

  Perri, Roberta ^a   Carlesimo, Giovanni A ^a   Loasses, Antonella ^a   Caltagirone, Carlo ^a  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Closed head injury; Priming; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0034053018     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70525-2     Document Type: Article

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